Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)May 11

It'd be great if #GTK & #libadwaita's About dialogs had a property for "Months of support per version", which would check the app's running version against its "date" field in the AppData metainfo.xml and hide the "Website" & "Report an Issue" buttons if it's too old.

Thus upstream devs could avoid being the externalized cost of free "LTS" distros (users reporting issues about ancient versions) without being accused of being anti #FLOSS (like in https://gitlab.com/linuxmint/pins/mint/gnome-calendar/-/work_items/1)

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Remove/replace links pointing to GNOME Calendar, and update branding (#1) · Issues · Linux Mint / pins / mint / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Being one of the core developers of GNOME Calendar, we do not support any of the versions provided and held back by Linux Mint. We would really appreciate...

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Show threadJeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)May 11

If those conditions are met, the dialog could also automatically show an educational infobar saying, "Issues must be reported to the package distributor instead of upstream, as the version is beyond the support lifecycle of this application's actual developers (upstream)", and to please leave us alone because a majority of #FreeSoftware devs have a thousand-yards stare and want to retire to a goat farm upstate and become solarpunks or something 

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Show threadVictoria 🏳️‍⚧️
@nekohayo you need to report it to libadwaita repo. Sounds extremely cool
May 11 at 7:54amWeb